The Wildest Things You Never Knew About Area 51

What We Can See

Currently, an overhead view of Area 51 is available to see via Google Earth. For the longest time, when Google Earth was first released, Area 51 was blacked out. It wasn’t until recently that you could clearly see the contents of Area 51, which just looks like a ton of empty plane hangers and warehouses. True conspiracy theorists think that these images are edited to hide the real Area 51 from the public, and a select few believe that the real Area 51 is a laboratory hidden underground.

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The More You Know

  • A former NASA scientist invented the Super Soaker.
  • Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke was making rounds in Hollywood. Since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth movie was made. Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on it, which later became the movie "Predator".
  • A Nepalese doctor has restored the sight of over 100,000 often poverty-stricken people in the last thirty years across Asia and Africa using a 5 minute procedure and an inexpensive artificial lens.
  • The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn.
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